Dutch conductor Hans Vonk recently brougt the St Louis Symphony Orchestra on tour to Europe, following highly successful concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York. Vonk is now in his second season as Music Director of the Saint Louis Symphony and spends approximately sixteen weeks in St Louis per season. Tour concerts took place in fifteen major European cities including London, Cologne, Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, Madrid and Hamburg. Vonk returns to Paris on 13 November with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France and Jose Van Dam, to Amsterdam on 13 December with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and earlier this year had another great success at the Netherlands Opera in Peter Sellar's production of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex / Symphony of Psalms.